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Hey All! So I searched and found some threads of people asking about the Ambient lighting in our Odyssey (05-10) but no one really ventured in to change it. If someone did then nothing was posted that I could find so hopefully this can help you all in case you wanted to upgrade or just change the color of the ambient light.
Some people posted that the 05-07 Odysseys had a Amber LED and the 08+ had a blue LED in them and the only way they saw to change the color was to buy a whole unit at some ridiculous price of like $200+.
This thread will help you do it for about ..... $1-2? hahahaha
I have a 06 EXL so this applies to that model and up, not sure if it applies to the 99-04 models.
Tools needed:
- Solder iron
- 2mm center punch or anything 2mm in diameter that has a flat tip
- 5mm LED (I have 12v LED's in white or blue for my last car which was an Accord and used one of these. hahah)
- Wire cutter with a thin nose
- Nail clipper
- Wire pick you could probably use a similar device about 1-2mm in diameter, as long as it can pull on a leg of a LED
- Panel poppers also known as non marking pry bar, nylon pry bar set (yellow plastic sticks with flat ends)
- Sharp scissors
1. First step is expose the LED and to do that we need to pop the cover off of the homelink. To do that without creating scratches, dings or other post nuclear mayhem please use a panel popper otherwise known as a non marking pry bar. You can find at harbourfreight, a full set will run about $6.00 if you don't have them already.
You take such tool, wedge it in position as shown and then pry towards the back of the van, that is, the handle you hold on to, should be pulled towards the rear of the van. It will create a small pop type of feel and the edge should come down, Put the popper on the front side and push towards windshield. Use gentle but firm force
2. You then find a big black box looking thing like below, see the black hooks in the same pry points as the homelink cover? Use gentle force again and pop those hooks out and this black box will come down. There is nothing in it and nothing clipped to it so if it happens to free fall, dont worry.
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Some people posted that the 05-07 Odysseys had a Amber LED and the 08+ had a blue LED in them and the only way they saw to change the color was to buy a whole unit at some ridiculous price of like $200+.
This thread will help you do it for about ..... $1-2? hahahaha
I have a 06 EXL so this applies to that model and up, not sure if it applies to the 99-04 models.
Tools needed:
- Solder iron
- 2mm center punch or anything 2mm in diameter that has a flat tip
- 5mm LED (I have 12v LED's in white or blue for my last car which was an Accord and used one of these. hahah)
- Wire cutter with a thin nose
- Nail clipper
- Wire pick you could probably use a similar device about 1-2mm in diameter, as long as it can pull on a leg of a LED
- Panel poppers also known as non marking pry bar, nylon pry bar set (yellow plastic sticks with flat ends)
- Sharp scissors
1. First step is expose the LED and to do that we need to pop the cover off of the homelink. To do that without creating scratches, dings or other post nuclear mayhem please use a panel popper otherwise known as a non marking pry bar. You can find at harbourfreight, a full set will run about $6.00 if you don't have them already.
You take such tool, wedge it in position as shown and then pry towards the back of the van, that is, the handle you hold on to, should be pulled towards the rear of the van. It will create a small pop type of feel and the edge should come down, Put the popper on the front side and push towards windshield. Use gentle but firm force

2. You then find a big black box looking thing like below, see the black hooks in the same pry points as the homelink cover? Use gentle force again and pop those hooks out and this black box will come down. There is nothing in it and nothing clipped to it so if it happens to free fall, dont worry.

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